Advanced Calculus or Numerical Linear Algebra

Michsund said:
Just wanted to add that I’ve taken the advanced calculus course, it’s good but I feel like mfe programs go over that in detail. Linear is not in my experience.
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Are there any good books or source material so I can get comfortable with the topic beforehand? I was a little surprised as well because it seemed PDEs we’re super important.
 
mjolewis said:
Are there any good books or source material so I can get comfortable with the topic beforehand? I was a little surprised as well because it seemed PDEs we’re super important.
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I only saw pde for stoc Calc 2 even then it wasn’t much. I assume you need pde’s more for pricing but I’m not really an expert there. I would saw coming in to any mfe know how to use pandas and numpy well and be good at basic maths.ie) linear, Calc,etc
 
Andy Nguyen said:
Quantnet now offers an online Python course as well :)
Would love to hear about the kind of Python projects you do at CMU and the level of knowledge expected there.
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We do have python notebooks where we do a lot of classes, but it’s not structured well in terms of setting up a work style project. I mean some people probably do, but the structure of our code wasn’t something that I would write when working for a job. In that sense it might be interesting to see how to write python code “professionally”. Maybe @Onegin can give his opinion on this
 
Traditionally, "linear algebra" tends to be taught in academia without dealing with "numerical" part. A better name is Vector (or Linear) spaces. To this stuff into a computer we have "Numerical Linear Algebra" and has algorithms for a wide range of problems and applications all over the place, e.g. PDE, ML. Finally, these algos are in Fortran, C++ and Python. Each part of the jigsaw is needed.

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Michsund said:
We do have python notebooks where we do a lot of classes, but it’s not structured well in terms of setting up a work style project. I mean some people probably do, but the structure of our code wasn’t something that I would write when working for a job. In that sense it might be interesting to see how to write python code “professionally”. Maybe @Onegin can give his opinion on this
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Agree; we code a lot in python, but it’s typically subordinate to the topic under study. For example, write this simulation, ML Algo, Data science study, in python. The pro is the curriculum goes beyond the “recipe book” approach to ML / DS into the underlying theory, assumptions, and evolution.

That’s different from developing production quality code. I heard once (like on a podcast last week) that software development progressed from an individual caffeine fueled cowboy approach to a firm-wide cross team synchronized activity. So you have to think about versioning, inter-operability, standards, duplication of efforts, documentation, to name a few. That’s not covered, and is very important in a professional setting where you’re working on stuff that has a lot of financial risk. But, It’s not obvious to me that it could / should be covered in such a program. There are other ways to obtain that knowledge (C++ course here being one of them), but it’s harder to learn ML / StoCal at a high resolution without the focus of a masters program in my opinion. Of course, I’m probably one of the dimmer bulbs in the program, so take this w a grain of salt.
 
Onegin said:
Agree; we code a lot in python, but it’s typically subordinate to the topic under study. For example, write this simulation, ML Algo, Data science study, in python. The pro is the curriculum goes beyond the “recipe book” approach to ML / DS into the underlying theory, assumptions, and evolution.

That’s different from developing production quality code. I heard once (like on a podcast last week) that software development progressed from an individual caffeine fueled cowboy approach to a firm-wide cross team synchronized activity. So you have to think about versioning, inter-operability, standards, duplication of efforts, documentation, to name a few. That’s not covered, and is very important in a professional setting where you’re working on stuff that has a lot of financial risk. But, It’s not obvious to me that it could / should be covered in such a program. There are other ways to obtain that knowledge (C++ course here being one of them), but it’s harder to learn ML / StoCal at a high resolution without the focus of a masters program in my opinion. Of course, I’m probably one of the dimmer bulbs in the program, so take this w a grain of salt.
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This is 100% correct.
After all these years Computer Science still does not understand that software development is more of an engineering+ design discipline.
Anyone can write a program that prints '42'. And unfortunately, the situation is exacerbated in ML. The real risk in the future is armies of Python maintenance programmers if we are not careful.

For some reason, many students have not been made aware of how software development works outside. Read my analysis of the disastrous COVID-19 software. It proves what I was saying all along.

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I have worked in industry for some time and best practices have been woven into the Quantnet/Baruch C++ courses. e.g. decomposition, SRP, design patterns and all those good stuff.
 
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@Michsund
FYI, Baruch College also offers Python for Finance at $750. Quantnet is at $1,250 with additional 3 levels focusing on Data Science/Machine Learning.
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